Prof. Daniel D. Burkey, Castleman Term Professor of Engineering Innovation and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Diversity, was recently inducted as an AIChE Fellow at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in San Diego.

Fellow is the highest grade of membership available in AICHE, and granted only through election by the AIChE Board of Directors. Fellows typically have at least 25 years of professional service and the honor is granted to members “in recognition of significant professional accomplishments and contributions in engineering.”

Burkey is a recognized leader in engineering education, both in research and in service. Burkey’s research focuses on work in game-based education, specifically in the areas of process safety and engineering ethics. His collaborative work in these areas have been recognized with the 2020 AIChE Education Division Innovation Award, the 2022 William H. Corcoran Award from the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE, and the 2023 David Himmelblau Award for Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering Education.

In terms of service, Burkey has been elected three times as a Director of the AIChE Education Division, where he has run the Education Division’s Future Faculty Mentoring Program since 2017. This program pairs established faculty with senior graduate students and postdocs with to support them during the faculty search process. The program has now supported more than 200 mentees and engaged more than 100 mentors, and has program alumni in more than 100 faculty positions in more than 50 academic institutions world-wide. Burkey was also one of the programming leads for the 2022 AIChE/ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School, one of the signature NSF-co-sponsored professional development opportunities for new chemical engineering faculty.

(Photo: Burkey alongside fellow inductee and President of Lehigh University Joe Helble)